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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Great Britain Passeriformes -- Ireland Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Ireland
Publisher: Hull London : Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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- make amusing pets, unless taught bya wild bird, they never learn the wild song; my Missel Thrush only sang
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tw.t> */^ Song Thrusi Plate 2 The Song Thrush. 7 two notes, one high, the other low, its song was far behind that of the Ox-eye Tit for melody. There is not the least trouble in keeping and taming wild Thrushes. They sulk at first, but a few lively worms quickly inducethem to feed. Family— TURDID^. Subfamily— TURBINE. The Song Thrush. Turdus musicus, Linn. FOUND throughout the Palsarctic Region, but rare in the extreme East,generally migratory in Western Europe, though resident in some countries;generally distributed throughout the British Islands, though of rareoccurrence in the Shetlands. In England this bird is a partial migrant, greatnumbers travelling southward late in the autumn but returning to their old hauntsat the first sign of spring weather; nevertheless, a considerable number remainswith us during the winter. The adult bird above is deep olive-brown, the wing coverts tipped withbright deep buff, under parts mostly white, the cheeks somewhat yellowish,streaked with

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